[Swift-devel] [Fwd: [pads-users] Mounting homes read-only on computes]

[Sarah Kenny]

/var/tmp ?

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> I guess we should allow worker logs to go in some other place than
> ~.globus/
>
> Mihael
>
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> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:00:40 -0500
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> One of the things discussed as part of the post-mortem of today's home file
> server outage is mounting home directories read-only on the compute nodes.
> We do this on Beagle and haven't had any complaints for the most part. So I
> wanted to solicit you to see how disruptive that might be to your current
> PADS work. Homes would still be mounted read-write on the login machines,
> but they wouldn't be writable on the computes. The alternative is to push
> your writes to either GPFS or the local scratch filesystems. If we don't
> hear any major complaints about this, we're targeting next month's
> maintenance to make this live. What are your thoughts on this?
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